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library(patchwork)

Load Dataset

weather_df = 
  rnoaa::meteo_pull_monitors(
    c("USW00094728", "USC00519397", "USS0023B17S"),
    var = c("PRCP", "TMIN", "TMAX"), 
    date_min = "2017-01-01",
    date_max = "2017-12-31") %>%
  mutate(
    name = recode(
      id, 
      USW00094728 = "CentralPark_NY", 
      USC00519397 = "Waikiki_HA",
      USS0023B17S = "Waterhole_WA"),
    tmin = tmin / 10,
    tmax = tmax / 10) %>%
  select(name, id, everything())
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weather_df
## # A tibble: 1,095 × 6
##    name           id          date        prcp  tmax  tmin
##    <chr>          <chr>       <date>     <dbl> <dbl> <dbl>
##  1 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-01     0   8.9   4.4
##  2 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-02    53   5     2.8
##  3 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-03   147   6.1   3.9
##  4 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-04     0  11.1   1.1
##  5 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-05     0   1.1  -2.7
##  6 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-06    13   0.6  -3.8
##  7 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-07    81  -3.2  -6.6
##  8 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-08     0  -3.8  -8.8
##  9 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-09     0  -4.9  -9.9
## 10 CentralPark_NY USW00094728 2017-01-10     0   7.8  -6  
## # ℹ 1,085 more rows

Revisit scatterplot

weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5)
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

Add labels

weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Minimum daily temperature (C)",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package"
  )
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

Scales

weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Minimum daily temperature (C)",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package") + 
  scale_x_continuous(
    breaks = c(-15, 0, 15), 
    labels = c("-15º C", "0", "15"))
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Minimum daily temperature (C)",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package") + 
  scale_x_continuous(
    breaks = c(-15, 0, 15), 
    labels = c("-15ºC", "0", "15"),
    limits = c(-20, 30)) +
# xlim() can be used to control the plot limits in the X axis
  scale_y_continuous(
    trans = "sqrt", 
# scale_y_sqrt() can be added to a ggplot object to transform the Y scale
    position = "right")
## Warning in self$trans$transform(x): NaNs produced
## Warning: Transformation introduced infinite values in continuous y-axis
## Warning: Removed 90 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Minimum daily temperature (C)",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package") + 
  scale_color_hue(name = "Location", h = c(100, 300))
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

# arguments to scale_color_hue() control the color scale and the name in the plot legend

Themes

ggp_temp_plot = 
  weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmin, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_point(aes(color = name), alpha = .5) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Minimum daily temperature (C)",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package"
  ) + 
  viridis::scale_color_viridis(
    name = "Location", 
    discrete = TRUE
  )

ggp_temp_plot
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

ggp_temp_plot + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

# change the position of legend to bottom 

theme built in

ggp_temp_plot + 
  theme_bw() + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

theme classic

ggp_temp_plot + 
  theme_classic() + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

learning assessment

ggplot(weather_df, aes(x = date, y = tmax, color = name)) + 
  geom_smooth(se = FALSE) + 
  geom_point(aes(size = prcp), alpha = .75) + 
  labs(
    title = "Temperature plot",
    x = "Date",
    y = "Maxiumum daily temperature (C)",
    caption = "Data from the rnoaa package"
  ) + 
  viridis::scale_color_viridis(discrete = TRUE) + 
  theme_minimal() + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
## `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula = 'y ~ x'
## Warning: Removed 3 rows containing non-finite values (`stat_smooth()`).
## Warning: Removed 3 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

data argument in geom_*

central_park = 
  weather_df %>% 
  filter(name == "CentralPark_NY")

waikiki = 
  weather_df %>% 
  filter(name == "Waikiki_HA")
# split weather_df into separate datasets for Central Park and Waikiki
ggplot(data = waikiki, aes(x = date, y = tmax, color = name)) + 
  geom_point() + 
  geom_line(data = central_park)
## Warning: Removed 3 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).

# use one in the ggplot() call and another in geom_line()

patchwork

tmax_tmin_p = 
  weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = tmax, y = tmin, color = name)) + 
  geom_point(alpha = .5) +
  theme(legend.position = "none")

prcp_dens_p = 
  weather_df %>% 
  filter(prcp > 0) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = prcp, fill = name)) + 
  geom_density(alpha = .5) + 
  theme(legend.position = "none")

tmax_date_p = 
  weather_df %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = date, y = tmax, color = name)) + 
  geom_point(alpha = .5) +
  geom_smooth(se = FALSE) + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")

(tmax_tmin_p + prcp_dens_p) / tmax_date_p
## Warning: Removed 15 rows containing missing values (`geom_point()`).
## `geom_smooth()` using method = 'loess' and formula = 'y ~ x'
## Warning: Removed 3 rows containing non-finite values (`stat_smooth()`).
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data manipulation

weather_df %>%
  mutate(name = forcats::fct_reorder(name, tmax)) %>% 
  ggplot(aes(x = name, y = tmax)) + 
  geom_violin(aes(fill = name), color = "blue", alpha = .5) + 
  theme(legend.position = "bottom")
## Warning: There was 1 warning in `mutate()`.
## ℹ In argument: `name = forcats::fct_reorder(name, tmax)`.
## Caused by warning:
## ! `fct_reorder()` removing 3 missing values.
## ℹ Use `.na_rm = TRUE` to silence this message.
## ℹ Use `.na_rm = FALSE` to preserve NAs.
## Warning: Removed 3 rows containing non-finite values (`stat_ydensity()`).

# reorders name according to tmax values in each name